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Even at $100 these would be very worth it to me. Can't read in cars, and can't ride in ocean boats in any kind of swell. Twisty mountain roads as a passenger are bad. I even get a little nauseous on city busses. Barfing doesn't look cool, so the dork factor is an easy price to pay.

The concept makes sense, unlike copper/magnet bracelets.

Dramamine doesn't help me. The "Relief Band" that shocks the wrist does help with stomach nausea, but not the head wooziness (https://www.reliefband.com/). Also no food, ginger, or small amounts of carbs doesn't help. Looking at the horizon helps a little.

Looks like they are on preorder, shipping in December 2018:

https://www.boardingglasses.com/

Excited to see real reviews.

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I used to have similar problems and the one thing that solved it was taking sailing lessons. It was bad at first, once on an 8-hour trip I vomited 4 times, but gradually my organism adjusted and these days I rarely get motion sickness.

I've observed that people can experience motion sickness very differently. Some people can be fine for long periods of time before gradually getting nauseous and then take just as long to recover without every vomiting. Other people get sick almost immediately and then after vomiting are completely fine. Some people must look at the horizon in order to avoid getting sick and others cannot avoid getting sick. Some people vomit repeatedly while others only need to do it once.

I am extremely sensitive to motion sickness and hence very keen on finding anything which works against it. I will certainly watch those glasses, but as I tend to get sick in a car looking out of the window after a few minutes even without attempting to read, I am not too optimistic.

On the drug side, I had the best results with Cinnarizine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnarizine). To get good results, I take a single capsule (75mg) per day, but I have to take it at least for 3 days in advance of the travels and keep taking it during travels. It pretty much eliminates motion sickness under normal circumstances for me and at the overall low dosage the side effects are not too severe.

I'm much the same. I have a surprisingly vivid memory (vivid for me, at any rate) of reading a comic book while riding in a car when I was 3 (for anybody familiar with Dunedin NZ in the late 1970s, I was reading a Mickey Mouse comic book that was given away with petrol from Mobil stations, in this case the one just outside Warrington). I remember pulling up at the holiday home, feeling terrible.

I have many memories of having to pull over and be sick on the side of the road, as I grew up. Vague memories of pink motion sick tablets when I was four. I sometimes can't even sit in the back seat of a car, especially so if the seats have headrest. A couple of years back, I was given a tour of a ship that was docked, and as we headed below decks, I started to feel most unwell.

I still remember how defeated I felt when I had to abandon going to Ladakh midway during my backpacking trip 3 years ago. And then I had to give up going to Manipur and then Arunachal too. Even though I kept on travelling it just felt incomplete.

I tried many medicines but none of those helped me. I face all those you have listed. Just that city buses are a little better for me now if I get one of the front seat and it is an open window bus.

> Looking at the horizon helps a little.

Indeed. Also not trying to fight the body movement when the car moves on sharp curves. And falling asleep but then it often makes me miss all the scenery.

I get pretty bad motion sickness. Which is not wonderful when diving. Hyoscine works for me. The worst I've felt when I've had hyoscine has been mild nausea, even in awful conditions. I use the behind-ear patches, sold as transderm scopolamine (IIRC).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyoscine

Scopolamine, as in the truth serum? Do you notice any increased tendency to blab secrets when taking it? It would be amusing to travel with you.

My SO takes it when we're on boats, and she definitely feels - different. I haven't noticed her blabbing secrets, but I'll ask some better questions next time. :)

Ha ha. The dose isn't high enough for that. The main side effects are wicked dry mouth and drowsiness. The drowsiness can be a problem if you need to operate heavy machinery, like docking an 18-ton sailboat, but still better than being sick.

Scopolamine works well for me, too. After 2-3 days (on long sailing trips) I do get the side effect that makes it hard to focus my eyes at close distances (3"-9" or so).

It shouldn't be hard to make a quick mock-up of the idea and test it.

Just get round classes and put plastic tube filled with colored liquid around the rims.

It may require that you get the damping of the fluid motion just right. I would guess that neither sloshing (under-damping) nor lagging (over-damping) would help.

I wonder if you could just match the viscosity of your inner ear fluid.

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